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Zoë Garbett, Mayor of Hackney. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

August 28, 2026, 10:56 am

Hackney Council may withhold emails over 7 October twinning deadline

There was widespread anger when Hackney Mayor Zoe Garbett wrote to Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav requesting a response to the breaking of a twinning agreement by that date

By Daniel Sugarman

Green Party leader Zack Polanski (centre) with Lewisham mayoral candidate, Liam Shrivastava and Hackney mayoral candidate, Zoe Garbett (second right), at the launch of the party's campaign for the local elections on May 7, at One Friendly Place in Greenwich, south London. Picture date: Thursday April 9, 2026.

August 26, 2026, 2:08 pm

Green Party rejects conference participation from left-wing Israeli group

Despite the fact that Omdim Beyachad refers to the war in Gaza as genocide and the situation in the West Bank as apartheid - they have been refused a stall or fringe event

By JN Reporter

Yona Yahav (Creative Commons/Elad Malka)

August 6, 2026, 11:06 am

Haifa’s Mayor invites Mayor of Hackney to visit ‘to look for herself’

Haifa's Mayor: 'When a city that has devoted decades to building a shared society is portrayed as a symbol of racism or intolerance, it is the truth that suffers'

By JN Reporter

August 5, 2026, 2:50 pm

‘Come and see Haifa’: academics challenge Hackney over plan to cut 58-year ties

Technion and University of Haifa figures say the borough risks abandoning a city where Jewish-Arab cooperation is part of daily life

By Annabel Sinclair

July 31, 2026, 6:16 pm

Hertsmere council leader pulls out of Hackney Green-led summit after Haifa ties cut

Jeremy Newmark informed Mayor Zoe Garbett that 'if Hackney walks away from Haifa, Hertsmere will walk towards it'

By JN Reporter

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gather outside Hackney Town Hall ahead of the council vote on ending the borough's twinning agreement with the Israeli city of Haifa. Photo Credit: OurFight UK

July 30, 2026, 11:47 am

Pro-Israel protesters pelted with eggs after Hackney backs move to end Haifa twinning

Campaigners say they were abused and targeted outside Hackney Town Hall after councillors voted to begin ending the borough’s Haifa partnership

By Annabel Sinclair

Pro-Palestine activists outside Hackney Town Hall

July 30, 2026, 11:18 am

Hackney’s new leadership has chosen division over dialogue

The Green-party controlled council and Mayoralty's choice to break a twinning agreement with Haifa - and specifically ask for a response by 7 October - was deeply hurtful

By Nivi Feldman

July 29, 2026, 7:05 pm

Fury as Green party Mayor requests Israeli reply to de-twinning motion ‘by 7 October’

Letter from Zoe Garbett to Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav after the Green controlled council voted to cancel a twinning agreement described as 'a sickening attempt to mock and torment Israelis in their grief'

By Daniel Sugarman

July 28, 2026, 1:00 pm

Polanski image row prompts call for politicians to be ‘careful’ on social media

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden says politicians must be careful on social media as Metropolitan Police assess complaints over Zack Polanski’s post

By JN Reporter

The Green Party said Mr Polanski “condemns the image on the T-shirt” and clicked accept to be tagged in a post with 20 images “without realising there was more to it than he had seen”.

July 27, 2026, 9:29 pm

Police ‘conducting inquiries’ into guillotine image after Reform report Polanski

The image, subsequently unshared from Polanski’s account, featured a man wearing a T-shirt with the message “We’re only making plans for Nigel” and a guillotine

By Jewish News Reporter

Jo Dowbor (centre left) and Mothin Ali (centre right) with Young Greens members at the party's national convention, where delegates elected new co-chairs and voted to replace the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Photo" Instagram

July 21, 2026, 3:32 pm

Young Greens elect anti-Zionist co-chairs and scrap IHRA antisemitism definition

Greens for Palestine founder Jo Dowbor helped drive the change as the youth wing replaced the widely used definition with new guidance

By Annabel Sinclair

Young Greens members will debate proposals on antisemitism guidance at their annual conference next month. Credit: Young Greens UK

June 29, 2026, 11:52 am

Young Greens to vote on plan saying support for ‘right to resist occupation’ is not antisemitic

Jewish groups warn proposed changes to party guidance could make young Jewish members feel less protected within the Green Party

By Annabel Sinclair

June 19, 2026, 10:39 am

The useful idiocy of Zack Polanski

Polanski has done everything he possibly could to disassociate himself from his own previous Zionism, but it is not enough. It never would be. Because Zionism isn’t the problem.

By Nicole Lampert

June 11, 2026, 4:15 pm

Green Party considers proposal for circumcision ban

The party's health policy working group is consulting members as to whether to propose an anti-circumcision policy at an upcoming conference

By JN Reporter

Greens leader Zack Polanski with co-deputy leaders Mothin Ali and Rachel Millward

June 2, 2026, 2:06 pm

Fighting Green Party antisemitism and bigotry from the inside

SPECIAL REPORT: A new group within the Greens seeks to take on the wave of Jew-hate that seeks to engulf the party. Jewish News speaks to one of its key members

By Daniel Sugarman

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